We performed a comparison between Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) and Pure Storage FlashBlade based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The iSCSI protocol is quite simple to configure."
"The fact that the solution is vendor-agnostic allows it to be used with any virtualization vendor while remaining a powerful abstraction over storage."
"The management and monitoring have been very easy since the solution's dashboard is very simple and user-friendly."
"I save both physical and virtual space."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"We test live failovers every week, and so far, everything has been running smoothly without anything unexpected."
"It eliminates the use of expensive physical shared storage."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"Technical support is okay."
"We like that the size of the box is 1U or 2U only, and all the servers are fit into that box. The ease of operation is there. All the servers and the SAN storage are inside the box."
"The maintenance software is straightforward because you do not need to do any configuration."
"There are a lot of features in Nutanix that are different from other hyper-converged solutions, such as site-to-site replication. VM-based site-to-site replication is bundled with the software licensing. For the DR, it has the availability groups, which is one of the key features that Nutanix provides."
"The solution is easy to use and the pricing is affordable."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS is flexible and has helped people to work from home during the pandemic."
"It has seamless expandability."
"Being able to upgrade our entire cluster with the click of a button during business hours with zero downtime has made managing our infrastructure so easy."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and simple."
"Using this solution has made our backups more reliable."
"We have integrated it with VMware. The integration process is pretty good. Especially with VMware, it helps with the capacity of it."
"The most valuable features include the ease of implementation, ease of use and the speed that you can do backup and recovery on."
"The onboarding and integrated monitoring tools are pretty good."
"It helps simplify our storage, because the user interface is very simple and the installation is easy."
"The ease of deployment and management has helped us simplify our storage. We also do not have to worry about capacity management as much. A lot of these things are native to Pure Storage."
"It's very easy-to-use."
"It is hard to find adequate technical documentation on their support website."
"High availability for direct attached hardware drives could be useful for increasing the performance of a storage appliance."
"I would like to see improvements in the documentation area."
"Updates seem to be non-existent."
"There is a general lack of documentation, especially up-to-date documentation to get started."
"When StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere nodes go offline unexpectedly, the nodes have to re-sync disks fully which takes a long time. We had a power failure and when both nodes came online, VMware vSphere didn't see StarWind disks before I manually re-scanned them form ESXi administration console even though it should happen automatically"
"A web management interface would be good, especially for those coming from other solutions that have one."
"The number of different ways you can set it up can make it a little daunting."
"We had a few problems with the foundation machine that you can use to build your systems out. We've got it working now, but it should be improved."
"In terms of the IT different categories, I would like for the governing sections to be able to use it in the IT department. If they can have something like a one view management portal or software similar to VMware that would be an added value."
"Nutanix Acropolis AOS could improve by having an auto-update feature. At this time I have to update each system manually. However, I bought the standard license and I did not buy the maximum license they have available. There could be a certain license that does the updates automatically."
"There is a lot of functionality in Prism Central, but sometimes you want to see those features in Prism Element."
"I would have liked it if Nutanix were a hardware as well as a software platform."
"One thing I've noticed is that, when you do a shift from VMware to Nutanix, it opens the setup of the VM that's currently running. If people from another site double click on it, it opens the VM instead of the setup of the unit. So I would suggest that this could perhaps be switched. That is so far the only change I would like. I would like it if they could fix the instance where you double click on a VM and it opens the VM instead of the setup. That's the only thing that's a major bother to me."
"The process of migrating from old hardware to new could improve."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"I would like to have Snapshots and Snapmail in the next release. People who came from a NetApp background, especially expect these features."
"There could be improvements in public cloud integration."
"The features provided for SMB customers are limited."
"I would like to see better integration."
"I would like to see more VM-Aware features in the next release of this solution."
"There is some room for new features related to authentication and integration with Kubernetes, and other solution using S3 Bucket."
"I would like to see the licensing fees improved as well as the price per terabytes."
"File storage needs a lot of improvement. Mainframe connectivity also needs improvement because it requires additional components to be integrated with Pure Storage FlashBlade. If you want to keep your backup data, then this becomes an even more expensive solution because Pure Storage FlashBlade will not be able to meet your backup needs."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Pure Storage FlashBlade is ranked 6th in File and Object Storage with 30 reviews. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Pure Storage FlashBlade is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pure Storage FlashBlade writes "A high-performing and scalable solution that improves data performance for S3 workloads". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Pure Storage FlashBlade is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), VAST Data, MinIO, Pure Storage FlashArray and Red Hat Ceph Storage. See our Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade report.
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